![Broadcast, yearbook and newspaper combined for 66 Interscholastic League Press Conference awards this year. Yearbook won 43, newspaper won 14 and broadcast took home nine. “I think [the ILPC awards] are a great way to give the kids some acknowledgement for all of their hard work,” newspaper and yearbook adviser Paige Hert said. “They typically spend the year covering everyone else’s big moments, so it’s really cool for them to be celebrated so many times and in so many different ways.”](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/edited-ILPC.jpg)
![Looking down at his racket, junior Hasun Nguyen hits the green tennis ball. Hasun has played tennis since he was 9 years old, and he is on the varsity team. "I feel like it’s not really appreciated in America as much, but [tennis] is a really competitive and mentally challenging sport,” Nguyen said. “I’m really level-headed and can keep my cool during a match, and that helps me play a bit better under pressure.” Photo by Kyra Cox](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/hasun.jpg)
![Bringing her arm over her head and taking a quick breath, junior Lauren Lucas swims the final laps of the 500 freestyle at the regionals swimming competition on date. Lucas broke the school’s 18-year-old record for the 500 freestyle at regionals and again at state with a time of 4:58.63. “I’d had my eye on that 500 record since my freshman year, so I was really excited to see if I could get it at regionals or districts,” Lucas said. “ State is always a really fun experience and medaling for the first time was really great. It was a very very tight race, [so] I was a bit surprised [that I medaled]. [There were] a lot of fast girls at the meet in general, [and] it was like a dogfight back and forth, back and forth.” Photo by Kaydence Wilkinson](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Kaydence-2.7-23-edit-2.jpg)
![As her hair blows in the wind, senior Brianna Grandow runs the varsity girls 5K at the cross country district meet last Thursday. Grandow finished fourth in the event and led the varsity girls to regionals with a third place placement as a team. “I’m very excited [to go to regionals],” Grandow said. “I’m excited to race in Corpus Christi, and we get to go to the beach, so that’s really awesome.” Photo by Addison Bruce](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/brianna.jpg)
Young Men and Mothers Make a Difference
Courtesy of https://ymslcedarpark.chapterweb.net
Young men in YMSL get together with their mothers to bond and serve their community.
November 23, 2018
On top of being involved with sports, fine arts, clubs and other organizations, high school men can also be apart of the Young Men’s Service League, a non-profit organization created to better the community and enhance mother and son relationships.
The YMSL Cedar Park Chapter was established in 2015 by seniors Trey and Brett Herbstreit and their mother to promote mother and son relationships. In its first year, Trey said that it gained around 30 members, and since then he said it has made a large impact on his life.
“Being apart of YMSL has helped me in high school in all sorts of ways,” Trey said. “It gets me way more active in pals and in other service activities, but it also opens my eyes and lets me serve around the school if someone needs help.”
Trey, who has been a part of the organization for three years, said that he enjoys meeting new people and being able to work together rather than individually to build bonds and help those in need, such as their “Hero’s Night,” where YMSL members cooked for veterans and their families.
“Some of my favorite aspects are seeing the impact I’ve made,” Trey said. “I love being able to do a service project or help people and seeing how that has helped them.”
Junior member Luke Ferguson said that YMSL is designed to help the community and develop young leaders by introducing them to unfamiliar environments and different ways to help others.
“I love YMSL because it takes me out of my comfort zone and lets me see into the lives of people less fortunate then I am,” Ferguson said. “It really helps me realize how blessed I am.”
Men are allowed to register for the organization in the fall of their eighth grade year and are able to use the hours to help with college applications, honor society admissions and more.
“In YMSL, we do many projects, but my favorite project thus far is definitely working at Open My World, where we help kids with mental diseases ride horses, which gives them exercise they don’t usually get and creates a bond between them and the horse,” Ferguson said. “To see their shining faces is the reason I go back, and to continue building a friendship is something I’ll never forget.”
For more information on YMSL or how to be apart of the organizations, click here.
![The fire department came to the school after students were evacuated when smoke started coming from the ceiling of a classroom. All students and staff are safe. “All of my friends left their stuff too, so we couldn’t contact our parents, and it was stressful,” senior Brynn Fowler said. “It was scary because I didn’t know [what was going on], and I couldn’t find anyone because it was a big crowd.” Photo by Anthony Garcia](https://cphswolfpack.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/firetruck-300x200.jpg)
